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Lyrics to l famously misunderstood songs, explained

The word mondegreen is defined as a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your caput, but is, in fact, incorrect. The term was coined in a Nov 1954 Harper'south Bazaar piece, where the author, Sylvia Wright, recalled a childhood mishearing. According to the author, when she was young her female parent would read to her from a book called "Reliques of Ancient Verse." Her favorite poem from the 1765 volume went like this: "Ye Highland and Ye Lowlands / Oh where have you been? / They take slain the Earl o'Moray / And laid him on the green." Wright, however, heard the concluding line as "And Lady Mondegreen."

A mondegreen actually takes identify between auditory perception (the concrete act of hearing) and significant-making (when our brains imbibe the noises with significance). This is essentially what happens in the childhood game of telephone. As one friend whispers a word or phrase into another'southward ear, information technology can become wildly distorted, and a totally different word or phrase can come out the other side. The acoustic information that'south received and the interpretation a brain comes up with simply don't friction match up. It'south not exactly entirely clear why this happens, nosotros just know that information technology does.

One instance nosotros encounter this happen a lot is in song lyrics. You lot can blame it on the overwhelming corporeality of auditory signals, like instruments and groundwork singers, or the fact that some words and phrases just audio remarkably like others, but chances are you've had at to the lowest degree i instance in your life where you've misheard what the singer is saying. Today, we're here to aid you out. Stacker rounded upwardly 50 famously misheard songs, explaining what's actually being said. From "hold me closer Tony Danza" to "at that place's a wino down the road," read on for lyrics to 50 famously misunderstood songs.

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'Tiny Dancer' by Elton John

- Misheard: "Agree me closer Tony Danza"
- Right: "Agree me closer tiny dancer"

Ane of the most frequently misheard lyrics, this Elton John blooper has spawned a life of its own. For example, the single, which went three-times platinum in Apr 2018, spawned a joke on an episode of "Friends." When discussing the nearly romantic songs of all time, Phoebe says that, in her opinion, it's "the one that Elton John wrote for that guy on 'Who's the Boss'."

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'Nosotros Built This City' past Starship

- Misheard: "We built this metropolis on sausage rolls"
- Right: "Nosotros built this city on stone and roll"

This misheard lyric from Starship's first-ever single is then common that information technology prompted a parody song. YouTuber LadBaby (aka Mark Hoyle) held the #i position on the U.K. singles charts during the 2018 holiday season for his comprehend nearly pork-stuffed pastries. Beating out artists like Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey for the honor, all proceeds from his track were donated to the Trussell Trust, a food bank clemency.

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'Migrate Away' by Uncle Kracker

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'Bare Space' by Taylor Swift

- Misheard: "All the lonely Starbucks lovers"
- Correct: "Got a long list of ex-lovers"

This lyric was misheard and so oft by Taylor Swift fans, that the singer really poked fun at her ain song on Valentine's Day in 2015. In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote: "Sending my love to all the alone Starbucks lovers out there this Valentine'southward Twenty-four hours… even though that is not the right lyric." To which the coffee chain playfully replied: "Wait, information technology's not?"

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'Maverick Rhapsody' by Queen

- Misheard: "Saving his life from this warm sausage tea"
- Correct: "Spare him his life from this monstrosity"

Anything less than a pipe hot cup of tea is an bodily nightmare for most Brits, but it turns out that's not actually what ane of their most famous musicians was crooning about. The vocal's popularity in the country has endured regardless. Equally of 2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the tertiary-best-selling U.K. single of all time, and is often cited every bit ane of the greatest rock songs globe-wide.

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'Baby Got Back' by Sir Mix-A-Lot

- Misheard: "I like big butts in a can of limes"
- Right: "I like big butts and I can not lie"

When Sir Mix-A-Lot'south famously irreverent vocal fabricated its debut in 1992, its every bit outrageous video was briefly banned by MTV due to its bootylicious nature. Rather than squashing the song'due south popularity, the ban really boosted it, and in the end, the track spent five weeks at #i on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Message in a Canteen' by The Police

- Misheard: "A year has passed since I broke my nose"
- Correct: "A year has passed since I wrote my annotation"

The Police considered "Message in a Bottle" ane of their most lyrically deep songs. In fact, when discussing the song in "g UK Number Ones," Sting said, "I think the lyrics are subtle and well-crafted enough to hit people on a dissimilar level from something you just sing along to."

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'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In' past Fifth Dimension

- Misheard: "This is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus"
- Correct: "This is the dawning of the Historic period of Aquarius"

A true hippie anthem, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" is really a mashup of two songs written for the musical "Hair." It's likewise somewhat of a rarity in the music manufacture as it was recorded by the group in ii different cities: Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Despite its nontraditional origins, the unmarried was certified platinum by the RIAA in Baronial 1991, 22 years after its original release.

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'Waterfalls' by TLC

- Misheard: "Don't go Jason Waterfalls"
- Correct: "Don't go chasing waterfalls"

In 1995, TLC won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for this signature track, which spent vii weeks at #ane on the Billboard Hot 100. However, that didn't proceed fans from really knowing all the lyrics to the at present-classic track. The "Jason Waterfalls" lyric even has its own Urban Dictionary folio, setting fans straight on their mistakes in one case and for all.

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'Smells like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana

- Misheard: "Hither nosotros are at present in containers"
- Correct: "Here we are at present, entertain us"

Legend has information technology, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's lead singer, used to use the correct line, "here we are, now entertain us" whenever he entered a political party. It was such a signature for him, that he found a way to work it into the song, simply to have it misheard frequently past listeners. The confusion didn't stop the alternative rail from reaching #half dozen on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Nosotros Will Rock Y'all' by Queen

- Misheard: "Kicking your true cat all over the place"
- Right: "Boot your tin can all over the identify"

In 2008, Queen'southward singles "We Are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You" were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Information technology was a well-deserved award for the tracks (which, despite being two split up songs, are almost always played together and oft referred to every bit a unmarried entity). In 2017, the track went four-times multi-platinum, with more than than 7 one thousand thousand certified units sold.

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'I Want to Concur Your Hand' by The Beatles

- Misheard: "I want to hold your ham"
- Correct: "I want to hold your paw"

Blame it on the British accents, just the first Beatles song to take hold of on in America also has one of the group's most ofttimes misheard lyrics. According to industry lore, Bob Dylan too misunderstood a line in the song. He allegedly idea that "I tin can't hide" was "I go high." After finding out that the group was non, in fact, marijuana smokers, he introduced them to the recreational practice and cemented himself a spot in Beatle history.

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'I'k a Believer' past The Monkees

- Misheard: "Then I saw her face, now I'm gonna leave her"
- Correct: "Then I saw her face, at present I'm a believer"

Popularized by the movie "Shrek," "I'chiliad a Believer" was really released 35 years prior by The Monkees. The original version was an instantaneous hit, going gold within two days of its release and holding the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for vii weeks.

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'Blinded by the Lite' by Bruce Springsteen

- Misheard: "Wrapped up like a deuce, some other rumor in the night"
- Correct: "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

This famous Bruce Springsteen lyric gets misheard in all sorts of ways. In 1993, a Canadian sketch-comedy show, "The Vacant Lot," included a "Blinded by the Light" sketch on their testify that poked fun at the diverse wrong renditions out there.

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'Bad Moon Ascension' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Misheard: "There'southward a bathroom on the right"
- Correct: "There's a bad moon on the ascension"

Some musicians love getting in on the joke of their misunderstood lyrics—John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of them. During his 1998 "Premonition" concert taping, he really sang the incorrect lyric on stage (close listeners can hear it quite manifestly after the last verse). It's also been reported that during other concerts he'd signal to the closest bath whenever he got to the line.

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'Like a Virgin' by Madonna

- Misheard: "Like a virgin, touched for the 31st fourth dimension"
- Correct: "Live a virgin, touched for the very offset time"

"Like a Virgin" was Madonna'due south first #1 hitting in the U.South. The rail topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for half dozen weeks. Its racy lyrics reportedly made it harder to find a recording studio and production team who would bring the song to life, but the finished product ultimately set Madonna apart from the horde of other 1980'southward pop singers.

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"It'southward Gonna Exist Me' by NSYNC

- Misheard: "It'due south gonna exist May!"
- Correct: "It'southward gonna exist me"

In recent years, this misheard lyric has spawned its ain meme that pops up each spring: a picture show of a frosted-tip, curly-haired Justin Timberlake spouting the wrong lyrics. The song hit #one on the Billboard Hot 100, simply even some of the most diehard '90s boy band fans admit that this lyric is hard to understand.

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'Cups (When I'm Gone)' by Anna Kendrick/Pitch Perfect

- Misheard: "You're gonna miss me past my walk, you're gonna miss me by my taco"
- Correct: "You're gonna miss me by my walk, you're gonna miss me by my talk, oh"

This fabricated-for-a-picture show song is a combination of a Carter Family vocal, "When I'm Gone" and the cup game, which was invented by the British band Lulu & the Lampshades and went viral on Reddit in 2009. It reached #half dozen on the Billboard Hot 100, and inspired legions of covers that were posted on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Several of the covers actually included this misheard lyric.

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'Work Information technology' by Missy Elliott

- Misheard: "Iss yurr fweminippi fwep all the same"
- Right: "Ti esrever dna ti plif nwod gniht ym tup I"

Missy Elliott'southward "Work Information technology" spent 10 weeks at #two on the Billboard Hot 100. During that time, nigh fans assumed this line was just gibberish. At that place was even speculation that information technology was a coded dirty bulletin. Only it turns out the real lyric is "I put my thing down flip information technology and reverse it" just flipped and reversed.

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'We Didn't Outset the Fire' by Billy Joel

- Misheard: "We didn't start the fire, it was always called-for, said the worst attorney"
- Correct: "Nosotros didn't outset the fire, it was always called-for, since the world's been turning"

"We Didn't Start the Burn" ranks depression on the list of Billy Joel'south favorite songs, just American listeners disagreed. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received heavy airplay afterwards its release in 1989. The track is a stream-of-consciousness-way song that lists all the events Joel feels divers his generation. The list is so lengthy that Joel has admitted having trouble remembering all the lyrics.

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'Forget You' by CeeLo Light-green

- Misheard: "I gauge he's an expert, and I'yard more an chaser"
- Correct: "I guess he's an Xbox, and I'thousand more than Atari"

In the original, curse-laden version of this vocal, CeeLo Dark-green drops the F-bomb xvi times in the span of 3.5 minutes. Even still, information technology reached #two on the Billboard Hot 100 and broke the ii meg view marking on YouTube within i calendar week of its release.

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'Desperado' by The Eagles

- Misheard: "Yous've been outright offensive, for so long now"
- Correct: "You lot've been out riding fences, for and so long now"

"Desperado" was the last song The Eagles ever performed on tour. It closed their show out on July 29, 2015, and six months subsequently their lead vocalizer, Glenn Frey, was dead. While the song is a fan favorite, it was never released as a single, which helped to boost anthology sales.

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'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke

- Misheard: "Mushrooms are nasty"
- Right: "Must want to go nasty"

Amidst all the controversy that surrounded the song'south suggestive and possibly demeaning lyrics, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" was busy breaking records. It not merely took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, but it also held the #one spot on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs for 16 weeks, the longest whatever song had held the position since the 1940s. A large part of that success was due to the media attending that surrounded the unrated cut of the video, which featured topless women, being banned.

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'Big Yellow Taxi' past Joni Mitchell

- Misheard: "If it ain't paradise, then put up a parking lot"
- Correct: "They paved paradise to put upward a parking lot"

The Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton cover of this vocal might exist the most famous version, but Joni Mitchell'southward was the original. Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times that she wrote the song after her first trip to Hawaii, where they had literally paved paradise to put upward a parking lot.

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'Our Lips are Sealed' by The Go-Gos

- Misheard: "Even Dallas games, people play"
- Right: "In the jealous games people play"

The Go-Gos originally started as a punk band in the 1970s but shifted to pop with the release of their album "Dazzler and the Vanquish" in 1981. "Our Lips are Sealed" was the breakout striking from the anthology, peaking at #xx on the Billboard charts.

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'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin

- Misheard: "There'southward a wino down the road"
- Correct: "And as we wind on down the route"

Although "Stairway to Sky" has been called "the best rock song of all time," it actually never charted. The rail was never released as a unmarried; instead, radio stations received promotional singles that accept get collector'southward items.

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'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)' past The Eurythmics

- Misheard: "I travel the world in generic jeans"
- Correct: "I travel the world and the seven seas"

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, the duo behind the Eurythmics, wrote "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" almost the search for fulfillment and the desires that motivate us. But non everyone hears information technology that style. The 2013 rom-com "I Give It A Year" poked fun at listeners' well-nigh frequently misheard lyric with one character quipping, "Do you think Annie Lennox is singing about whether she happened to travel the world in Levi's or Wranglers?"

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'Dancing Queen' by ABBA

- Misheard: "See that daughter, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen"
- Correct: "Run across that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen"

The only one of ABBA'south cord of hits to make it to #1 in the U.S., "Dancing Queen" too hitting #1 in thirteen other countries. It might likewise be their most misunderstood song. According to a poll conducted past Blinkbox in 2014, 22% of listeners reported hearing the famous lyrics this manner.

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'Papa Don't Preach' past Madonna

- Misheard: "Poppadom preach"
- Correct: "Papa don't preach"

When "Papa Don't Preach" was first released in 1986 there was a lot of controversy surrounding the song, as its lyrics dealt with teenage pregnancy and abortion. The media attention ended up helping boost the overall popularity of the song, which hit #1 in both the U.S. and the U.Grand. While we know Madonna as a very outspoken performer today, this was ane of her start tracks to openly deal with a political event.

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'Regal Haze' past Jimi Hendrix

- Misheard: "Alibi me while I kiss this guy"
- Correct: "Excuse me while I kiss the sky"

While information technology only ever hit #65 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Regal Haze" is oftentimes cited every bit one of Jimi Hendrix's best songs. There'southward a commonly misheard lyric buried within it, and, for his part, Hendrix did little to ever ready the record directly. He even went so far as to occasionally sing the incorrect lyric in concert while nodding or pointing at a male member of his band up on the phase.

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'The Sidewinder Sleep Tonite' by R.E.M.

- Misheard: "Calling Jamaica"
- Right: "Call me when you try to wake her upwards"

One of R.East.M.'s nearly overall confusing songs also holds ane of their most commonly misheard lyrics. However, one thing that anyone who has always heard the vocal can probably identify is the track's starting time iv notes, which mirror those from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens. Rather than stealing the sequence, R.Eastward.Yard. paid The Tokens for the rights to apply the riff and ended up covering the other "The Lion Sleeps This evening" as a part of the final bargain.

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'Like a G6' by Far East Motion

- Misheard: "Similar a cheese stick"
- Correct: "Like a K-half-dozen"

Far East Movement was essentially a ane-hit-wonder. Their only American hit, "Like a G6," reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010, and two additional songs charted in the U.K. Fans misheard the lyrics to their sole hit, as Chiliad-6'due south aren't actually planes (just something the ring fabricated upward that could conceivably go faster than a G-4).

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'Two Tickets to Paradise' by Eddie Money

- Misheard: "I've got 2 chickens to paralyze"
- Right: "I've got two tickets to paradise"

Eddie Money didn't accept a long or storied career, but his hit "Two Tickets to Paradise" has get a classic rock staple. Afterwards its release, the song only ever hit #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Summertime Sadness' by Lana del Rey

- Misheard: "I'thou feeling ill like Drake tonight"
- Correct: "I'chiliad feeling electrical this night"

Blame it on the singer'due south sultry accent, or the unusual pacing of the vocal, but few listeners become this lyric right on the first attempt. "Summertime Sadness" was a unmarried from Lana del Rey's first major album "Born to Dice." The track, which has a sound that del Rey describes as "Hollywood sadcore," reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (In the Garden of Eden)' by Iron Butterfly

- Misheard: "In a glob of Velveeta, honey"
- Correct: "In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey"

Arguably the first heavy metallic song, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" peaked at #thirty on the Billboard charts. The original song is over 17 minutes long just uses simply thirty different words. Information technology was this version (not the iv-minute radio cut) that Iron Butterfly was ready to perform at Woodstock before they got stuck in an airport and couldn't make it.

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'Fond to Love' by Robert Palmer

- Misheard: "A digital honey"
- Correct: "Addicted to love"

Striking #1 on the charts, Robert Palmer's "Fond to Love" is nigh memorable for its music video. The clip features a handful of models, all dressed and made-up identically, pretending to play instruments backside the vocaliser. It was parodied constantly throughout the '80s and '90s, including in a Pepsi commercial that featured fellow musician Britney Spears.

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'Take a Chance on Me' past ABBA

- Misheard: "If you change your mind, Jackie Chan, I'yard the first in line, Jackie Chan"
- Correct: "If yous change your mind, take a run a risk, I'm the commencement in line, take a chance"

While "Accept a Chance on Me" only reached #3 in the United States, it striking #1 in the chart in the U.1000., Austria, Belgium, Ireland, and Mexico. The single was certified Golden a year after its release in 1978.

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'SexyBack' by Justin Timberlake

- Misheard: "Go hippie, go hippie, go"
- Correct: "Go ahead, exist gone with it"

The first single from Justin Timberlake's 2nd solo anthology "FutureSex: LoveSounds," "SexyBack" topped the charts both in the U.Thou. and the U.Due south. Information technology combines elements of electronic trip the light fantastic music and disco, creating a sound that'due south totally unique and was definitely ahead of its time when the rails was released. In June 2007, the single went three-times multi-platinum.

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'Vertigo' by U2

- Misheard: "Hullo, how-do-you-do! I'm in a place called Oregon"
- Correct: "Hello, hello! I'k at a identify called vertigo"

Despite simply reaching #31 on the U.S. charts, "Vertigo" won 3 Grammys at the 2004 awards: Best Rock Song, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Song, and Best Short Grade Music Video. It's also among the songs the ring played when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a yr afterward.

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'Blowin' in the Wind' by Bob Dylan

- Misheard: "The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the air current"
- Correct: "The answer my friends, is bravado in the wind"

Information technology is thought that this is the almost covered Bob Dylan song. In fact, Dylan's version was never all that popular—it was the Peter, Paul and Mary comprehend that everyone knows best. In 1999, the runway, which Dylan claims to accept written in 10 minutes, was introduced into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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'Piano Homo' by Billy Joel

- Misheard: "Sing u.s. a song for the yellow human being"
- Correct: "Sing u.s.a. a song, yous're the piano man"

Arguably i of the most recognizable songs in the world, "Piano Human" was Billy Joel'southward quantum single after signing with Columbia Records. In Oct 2018, the single went three-times multi-platinum. Even even so, not everyone knows the words.

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'Paradise Metropolis' past Guns N' Roses

- Misheard: "Take me down to a very nice metropolis"
- Correct: "Take me down to the Paradise City"

Despite information technology literally beingness the title of the vocal, many fans mishear this lyric. According to the ring, Paradise City is Los Angeles, while the very next line ("where the grass is green, and the girls are pretty") is well-nigh the town where Axl Rose's family unit would vacation, Bloomington, Indiana.

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'Milkshake It Off' by Taylor Swift

- Misheard: "And the bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, broil"
- Right: "And the haters gonna detest, hate, hate, hate, hate"

The lead single from Taylor Swift'south first purely pop album "1989," "Shake It Off" debuted at #i on the Billboard Hot 100 where information technology spent a full of four weeks. Unlike some of her other misheard lyrics, T-Swift has never addressed this misquote publicly.

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'Lucy in the Heaven With Diamonds' by The Beatles

- Misheard: "The girl with colitis goes by"
- Right: "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

After the Beatles released this track in 1967, the BBC banned "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" for its excessive amount of drug references. While the band originally denied that the song had anything to practice with drugs, Paul McCartney finally confessed, in a 2004 interview with Daily Mail, that it was "pretty obvious" what the song was actually about.

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'Chasing Pavements' past Adele

- Misheard: "Or should I just keep chasing penguins"
- Correct: "Or should I just go along chasing pavements"

A much more than lighthearted twist on this classic heartbreak song, the mixup betwixt chasing penguins and chasing pavements has been reported by multiple listeners. While "Chasing Pavements" didn't perform likewise on the charts, it is credited with giving Adele her American breakout. The crooner performed the song on "SNL" in 2008, which gave her a huge corporeality of exposure in the United States.

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'I Can Run across Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash

- Misheard: "I tin can see clearly now, Lorraine is gone"
- Correct: "I tin can meet clearly now, the rain is gone"

The first reggae song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Johnny Nash'southward "I Can Run into Conspicuously Now" besides has one of the most ordinarily misunderstood lyrics in music history. Nash wrote the lyrics to the striking himself, but his thick Texan accent can get in hard for some listeners to effigy out exactly what those lyrics are.

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'Single Ladies' by Beyonce

- Misheard: "Got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips, hold me tighter than my very own jeans"
- Correct: "Got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips, concur me tighter than my Dereon jeans"

"Single Ladies" won three Grammy'due south at the 2010 awards: Song of the Year, All-time Female person R&B Vocal Functioning, and Best R&B Song. In the centre of her multi-platinum track, Beyonce plugs her ready-to-vesture clothing line, House of Dereon.

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'Little Talks' past Of Monsters and Men

- Misheard: "Crusade though the truth may vary, this sh** will carry our bodies condom to shore"
- Right: "Cause though the truth may vary, this send will carry our bodies safe to shore"

"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men went multi-platinum. Information technology turns out the lyrics of the ring'due south stand up-out hit aren't quite as profane as you may accept thought, although they may sound like it. According to the group's lead singer, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, the song is actually near a wife talking to her recently deceased husband.

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'La Isla Bonita' past Madonna

- Misheard: "Terminal nighttime I dreamt of soft bagels"
- Right: "Concluding night I dreamt of San Pedro"

While it was never a hitting on the same level as many of Madonna's other songs, at least in the U.S., "La Isla Bonita" still holds a special place in the Queen of Pop's catalog every bit information technology was her first runway to have Latin influences. And information technology'southward not terribly surprising that this lyric is frequently misheard, every bit San Pedro is not a real island.

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'Livin' on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi

- Misheard: "Information technology doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not"
- Correct: "It doesn't make a departure if we make it or non"

Originally, Jon Bon Jovi didn't retrieve that "Livin' on a Prayer" was up to the aforementioned standard as the rest of the ring'south work, and intended to leave the rail off of their tertiary album "Slippery When Wet." Thankfully, the group convinced him to include it in the terminate, and information technology became the grouping's signature song (as well as the unofficial anthem of New Jersey). In 2013, the track was certified by the RIAA as three-times multi-platinum.

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